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6 killed in Ecuador-Colombia border clash

6 killed in Ecuador-Colombia border clash
# 09 August 2013 04:35 (UTC +04:00)

The clash occurred at 5:45 a.m. local time (1045 GMT) in Puerto Mestanza, in Ecuador's northern province of Sucumbios, adjacent to Colombia's Putumayo department.

Leonardo Barreiro, chief of the Ecuadorian armed forces joint command, said the dead were an Ecuadorian lieutenant and five Colombian militants.

Two Colombian militants are under police custody and will be investigated, Barreiro told a press conference. The affiliation of the militants remained unclear.

The leftist guerrilla group, the Columbia Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), operates in the area, as do bands of paramilitary groups.

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